Keep Pedaling

Storm 2.

Not to be confused with the floating bridge which is *soo* much easier to ride!

p.s. the rite of initiation to shake the newbie label is to do the floating bride. * evil grin *

"Stay away from the "Stairway to Heaven". Ran it this past weekend. They made a mistake. It is actually oneway stairs straight to hell." Two other sections to avoid: Pofadder which goes along the top of the Magalies, and Collarbone - a section along the river with some drop-offs that have you sliding down on your ass holding your bike over your head. Everything else is fair game if you are a weekend warrior.

"On this map of L.T.G's, is daggapad the bit on the far right?" No. That is the optional bit of the railway and the district road back to the bottom of the concrete road. Daggapad is the squiggly square in the bottom right. Take the concrete road to the top of the Magalies on go strait over. Once you start descending you are on Daggapad.

The climb to the top of Oom Piets is mild to medium if you don't hammer it. Coming down Oom Piets can quickly cost you your front teeth if you go fast. Dagga Pad is hard to get lost on so don't fret. The Greek Chruch loop is about equal to the Oom Piet's loop in climbing but is less tricky on the descent.

"alloy compared to carbon - alloy flexes more than carbon (ask any roadie)" I thought the whole point of carbon was flex (and weight saving)?

12 Months ago I asked the same question on behalf of my wife and followed the general consusus vote of Rudy Project Rydons with inserts. She has been very happy with the result.

You got off cheaply. My colleague got a R100 000 roaming data bill and never even turned his iPad on. The real solution is prepaid. Load up 1 or 2 gig data on the first and it will last two months unless you are downloading videos. It is not such a pain as you would suspect.

Don't bother training much. Then take pain killers and drink red bull by the litre from the 10km mark. If you live you will have more self respect than if you trained for it.

"does any one know the route profile of the 50/60km mtb race?" Flat like a pancake.

What time on Sunday? Anyone know?

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My legs just started cramping at my desk just thinking about four days of climbing in that area.

Insurers do this for a reason. The reason is that if you accept claims without forced entry claims go through the roof from people who 'just want a new bike'. There are enough dishonest people out there that insurers need to have clauses like this to protect them. Always read your policy properly. If you don't understand something, ask your broker. If you don't - its like buying a car and then crying a river when you discover that it does not include free petrol.